This weekend Leah and I have lived in North Carolina for a year. There are many things I could reflect upon, given the anniversary, but when I think back, what comes most to mind is rejection. Now, things a year ago with Leah were going great—she wasn’t the one rejecting me. And things with the …
Continue reading One Year in North Carolina (or: How I Got a Job After 90 Rejections)
Once Leah got her job in Greensboro we had to figure out where to live. After a fair amount of internet searching we came up with three possible abodes. The first was in a new apartment complex, but constructed in a way to cash in on the “old factory” vibes that are around the city. …
So how did a guy from Oregon and a gal from Boston get to North Carolina? Well, Leah and I both completed graduate school as 2016 ended. We started applying to jobs right away, and Leah got one in Greensboro. That’s the story, simple as pie. But how did we actually get here, as in …
Continue reading Renting a U-Haul is Much Harder Than Renting a DVD
Leah and I moved to Greensboro, NC in April of 2017. Last week I mentioned a few notable things in the Piedmont Triad area (of which Greensboro is a part), but now seems like a good time to detail the city… in greater detail. We moved here because of Leah’s job, and so far I …
April 2017: Leah and I moved to North Carolina, a completely new state for both of us. She’s from the Boston area, or actually Duxbury, MA, to be specific. To those of us not from Massachusetts, Duxbury and Boston might seem like similar places (they’re 45 minutes apart). But trust me, they’re pretty different. Or …
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